Definition of "expropriated" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of expropriate. (verb)

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• "To raise money for his bankrupt treasury, Juárez sold off lands that had been expropriated from the Church to hacendados (big landowners) who had supported the Liberal cause."
• "A number of the aliyah kibbutzim relocated to farmland expropriated from the Germans by the Allied occupying forces and prepared themselves for communal life and working the land in pre-State Palestine."
• "Last week he relaunched a chain of supermarkets his government had expropriated from a French-Colombian joint venture."